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November 2008’s most-clicked link list posts: Government data, Spot.Us, being human, cutting costs

These are the blog posts and articles people were clicking on off my online journalism-oriented reading list from November 2008.

  1. Free our data: Plenty of ideas for freeing government data
  2. Community-funded news launches at Spot.Us
  3. the evolution of the front page: “These diagrams were a study related to my Masters thesis project, Movable Parts: The Retooling of the Los Angeles Times. In developing an understanding of newspaper culture I decided mapping the evolution of the front page would be a beneficial exercise. The below images tracks the front page of the Los Angeles Times over the entire history of the daily.”
  4. Memo to newspaper bloggers: Be human
  5. Local TV Stations Are Facing Severe Cost Pressures—Here’s How They Should Cut
  6. Newspapers Jettisoning Top Talent to Cut Costs – NYTimes.com: “But there is a business argument to be made here. Having missed the implications of the Web and allowed both their content and their audience to be scraped away by aggregators and ad networks, newspapers are now working furiously to maintain audience, build new ad models and renovate presentation. But they won’t stay relevant to readers with generic content ginned up by newbies with no background in the communities they serve.”

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